With the departure of Zayne Malik, its only natural that other members of the one direction group would want to do their own thing. Liam has signed a contract with Capitol Records and is set to release his first solo album sometime between late 2016 and early 2017.  Although being his first solo album, Payne is no stranger to working outside of One direction. He has produced many works under the name of "Big Payno" or "Payno" . Payne has also done collaboratins with Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, and Cheryl